Remember, the unauthorized usage of firearms aboard the Von Braun is a class 3 infraction.” The cybernetic enhancements that you’ve been fitted with afford you one chance to put an end to this madness, once and for all. The rising action of System Shock 2 has you caught in a power struggle between The Many, a genetically-engineered race of revolting bio-organisms bent on consuming all life in the universe, and SHODAN, the malevolent and insane machine-goddess that created them, with the very fate of humanity hanging in the balance. As you proceed through the decks, however, your mission of locating survivors and finding a way to escape the doomed vessel gives way to a greater priority. The only voice you can trust belongs to Polito, a survivor holed up on one of the upper decks who wants to help you fight back against these creatures. The ship’s AI has been corrupted by an unknown source and even the Von Braun’s robot population is out to get you. You wake up from stasis to find its crew dead in some places and mutated in others, turning them into hideous alien hybrids that pursue you relentlessly through the bloodstained halls. System Shock 2 opens on the Von Braun, a Tri-Optimum corporation research vessel sent on a mission of exploration in the unknown reaches of space. I take it this game isn’t going to be a lighthearted comedy romp… Right off the bat, we see a guy who hung himself. Are you afraid? What is it you fear? Let’s find out as we take our first steps into the foreboding corridors and brace ourselves for the nightmare…

And yet, despite the extraordinary success of its descendants, none of its many children has yet been able to match the true horror that System Shock 2 injects into your very veins. Its masterful execution of its atmosphere and groundbreaking plot gave birth to whole new conventions of terror, while its gameplay style became a model to be imitated by modern titles, such as Bioshock, Dead Space, and even Portal. System Shock 2 came out in 1999 to a low number of sales, but was hailed as a cult classic by those fortunate enough to play it, and now that it’s been unearthed on Steam, a whole new audience is rediscovering this once-lost treasure. In the realm of horror games, there is a title that stands above and continues to terrify even to this day, looming like a baleful monolith over the entire industry. Genre: First-Person Shooter, Role-Playing, Survival Horror Developer(s): Irrational Games, Looking Glass Studios

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